Spyware - Help!!
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Thought Kazaa was shut down?
FWIW never got spyware off Kazaa or any of the other p2p sites and back in the day thousands of songs were downloaded.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46
Get and run it to clear out any spyware you may have picked up.
FWIW never got spyware off Kazaa or any of the other p2p sites and back in the day thousands of songs were downloaded.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46
Get and run it to clear out any spyware you may have picked up.
Switch to FREE Linux and all those problems vanish!.....
You don't have to buy a thing!
Don't mess with WoodPeckr when it comes to a MAC!
I agree, Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware is free, and does work. It's save my ass a few times.
R2R
cheapest solution format drive, If that's a pain in the ass, get a new and even bigger harddrive. Keep on imaged with all of your updatest and clean install of os with patches. Then do you shit on the new one. Or grab an external and use that for your storage. If something happens to the new one swap it out with the "clean" one you imaged and back in business.
enyaw
Gives an excellent option, one that I used to do years ago with XP Pro.
I still have that extra HDD with a clean copy of XP Pro, along with all my fav apps and programs used back then on it. When XP would bog down due to all the crap built up, all I had to do was swap HDDs and copy over XP and all the programs, to the freshly formatted drive, that had s-l-o-w-e-d down and was up & running again in ~30 minutes.
Had to so this a couple times a year due to the heavy downloading being done back then. It was like getting a new PC when done.
Since switching to Linux this is no longer necessary because Linux does not accumulate crap slowing it down like M$ does.
Linux just runs lean & fast all the time.
Gives an excellent option, one that I used to do years ago with XP Pro.
I still have that extra HDD with a clean copy of XP Pro, along with all my fav apps and programs used back then on it. When XP would bog down due to all the crap built up, all I had to do was swap HDDs and copy over XP and all the programs, to the freshly formatted drive, that had s-l-o-w-e-d down and was up & running again in ~30 minutes.
Had to so this a couple times a year due to the heavy downloading being done back then. It was like getting a new PC when done.
Since switching to Linux this is no longer necessary because Linux does not accumulate crap slowing it down like M$ does.
Linux just runs lean & fast all the time.
You can try Spybot S & D. If you install, I wouldn't install the tea timer or toolbar, but it's free, and simple enough to use. Update, Immunize, then search and destroy.
Switch to FREE Linux and all those problems vanish!.....
You don't have to buy a thing!
Agree. Windows is always problems.
Plus, updates for software includes upgrading FREE the operating system.
Plus, Linux is faster than Windows and more secure.
Keep dual boot for things you cannot do without Windows.
You'd be surprised of what you can do with Linux.
Even iPod/iPhone/MAC runs under similar OS in the background...
Most of smart apps do too, so most of us already used Linux without knowing it.
Dual boot is the way to go, to economically have the best of both worlds.
I dual boot with XP, Vista and W7 even though 99% of the time is spent using Linux now. After learning PC basics there's nothing really wrong with XP, Vista & W7 other than they are not as secure as Linux. W7 is the best OS M$ has offered to date but I still prefer Linux because it is more secure and faster. Besides there is no reason to get a new PC with W7 and not use it once in awhile. Same goes for Vista and XP.
PCs are getting better and better with prices still falling. For this reason I see no valid reason to spend more on a pricey Mac when Linux is FREE and offers all a Mac does and more while not costing a penny. It's amazing how gullible some tech challenged folks are to slick Apple marketing and shell out so much for a Mac when Linux does the same for FREE....
I dual boot with XP, Vista and W7 even though 99% of the time is spent using Linux now. After learning PC basics there's nothing really wrong with XP, Vista & W7 other than they are not as secure as Linux. W7 is the best OS M$ has offered to date but I still prefer Linux because it is more secure and faster. Besides there is no reason to get a new PC with W7 and not use it once in awhile. Same goes for Vista and XP.
PCs are getting better and better with prices still falling. For this reason I see no valid reason to spend more on a pricey Mac when Linux is FREE and offers all a Mac does and more while not costing a penny. It's amazing how gullible some tech challenged folks are to slick Apple marketing and shell out so much for a Mac when Linux does the same for FREE....
Actually, in many ways, save for games, virtual machines are better. VMware is the 'big one' which I've used, and QEMU which I have used ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU and http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page ). The neat thing about a virtual machine is that you can boot another OS in a window on your Linux desktop. This means that you never have to reboot. Virtual machines generally act like 'real computers' that are simulated in software, have bridges to your real hardware, and often have 'virtual hardware' (so you can use standard network techniques to connect to them via 'virtual Ethernet', and some other things)... There's a mountain of quality Linux software for this.
Have heard this.
Just haven't got around to experimenting with VM as yet.
Since dual booting has run so well, I just went along with it taking the position....if it ain't broke don't fix it....
Have heard this.
Just haven't got around to experimenting with VM as yet.
Since dual booting has run so well, I just went along with it taking the position....if it ain't broke don't fix it....
For many years I used Windows in a window via VMWare because I had to use MS development tools. Sadly, I have no reason to do that anymore (the virtual machine bit, not the windows bit), so I nuked my VMWare install. I've briefly toyed with QEMU-- I find virtual machines more elegant than dual booting. With the big caveats that they are a bit slower, 3D support is often spotty, and god damn Windows only firmware / BIOS updaters (though they have become quite few). But for iTunes or MS-Office for example, Windows in a window is great under VMWare and QEMU (and related projects like Virtual Box).
That's what a few report that held me back from VM.
I want all OSs to run full speed for max efficiency which dual booting allows. No need to divi up you RAM as with VM.
Have a triple boot setup (XP Pro, Karmic and Lucid) on that 13 yr old P2 that runs fine. Doubt that would be possible with VM.
